Fun with Acronyms: Along with the obvious English meaning, gun is the Japanese word for "army".

Hero Antagonist: They served as one to Sonic after mistaking him for stealing a Chaos Emerald. Even in Shadow the Hedgehog, their forces will attack Shadow no matter what side he chooses (though this is more because their commander has a personal vendetta against him).

Knight Templar: G.U.N. will do almost anything to preserve world order. They get better about this eventually.

In the Japanese Sonic Adventure 2 guide, it's Guardian Units of Nation instead of Guardian Units of Nations, and the helicopter at the start of the Hero story reads Guardian United Nation, at least in the 2012 HD remaster.

"GUN" and "G.U.N." are used interchangeably.

Villain Has a Point: Although they raided the ARK and either incarcerated or killed everyone involved with Project Shadow, Gerald did make a deal with an Obviously Evil alien third party in order to speed research along. G.U.N. obviously wouldn't want anything bad to happen to Earth because of the ARK's actions.

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G.U.N.'s highest-ranking commander and also one of the most respected. Formerly had a 50-year grudge against Shadow, blaming him for the deaths of his family and Maria, whom he befriended as a child. After learning the truth, he had a change of heart about Shadow and even offered him a position within the organization, which the black hedgehog accepted.

Irony: Maria was his childhood friend, and he blames Shadow for the death of her and all of the people aboard the ARK. He grew up to be the Commander of GUN, the organization that killed them.

Mismatched Eyes: He has heterochromia, with one green eye and one brown eye.

Misplaced Retribution: He blames Shadow for Maria's death because his creation caused the G.U.N. raid that resulted in her death, rather than blaming Gerald for creating Shadow, or G.U.N. for actually shooting Maria.

My God, What Have I Done?: This was his reaction to what he nearly did when Shadow, after hearing about his apparent involvement in the destruction of the ARK and Maria from the Commander, gives him permission to do away with him, making it very clear that he really cannot remember.

Well-Intentioned Extremist: He had an almost irrational hatred of Shadow, siccing his troops on him in almost every level of Shadow the Hedgehog. But considering Shadow's role in the raid on the ARK, and the fact that it's Shadow, he wasn't completely unjustified. However, you'd think he'd have the slightest bit of concern for what Rouge (one of his top agents) would think about this, given herand Shadow'shistory.

You Killed My Father: Blames Shadow for the deaths of those aboard the ARK, despite the fact that Shadow doesn't remember this, and didn't hurt anyone.

Elite Mooks: There are beetle robots that are equipped with gun turrets, bombs, or electric shields.

Glowing Eyes of Doom: The beetle, hunter, and hornet robots each show a glaring red light when they spot a character.

Patrolling Mook: Some hunter robots are like this, unlike the ones which swoop down or awaken when a character approaches it. Hornet robots can be found doing this as well.

Shield-Bearing Mook: Some Hunter robots have shields and the characters can't destroy it until it points out their lasers after the character waits for a few seconds. (Except Sonic and Shadow, who can wipe it out by attacking their unprotected feet with a somersault.)

Thunder Beetle: The beetle robots occasionally surround themselves with electric shields much like the ones the protagonists can pick up.

Team Dark

A group under the current employ of the organization and often serve as their primary representation across the series.

Anti-Villain: None of the three are truly villainous. Rouge is a thief who's mostly only looking out for herself, but she does help the heroes in saving the world when a threat endangers it. Shadow finds himself in a struggle between choosing justice or revenge. Omega is a robot created by Eggman to destroy anyone who's a threat to him, but ends up on the side of justice.

Badass Crew: The ultimate lifeform, a walking armory, and a treasure hunter/super spy that takes no sass from anyone. Yeah, don't mess with them!

Cast Herd: As of Sonic Heroes, they are rarely seen apart. If they are, it's always Shadow without the other two. Sometimes it's Shadow and Rouge without Omega.

Elemental Powers: Due to the game mechanics of Sonic Heroes, they were (like every other team) each given an element. This didn't really stick with them after Heroes, and they have occasionally been associated with other elements at different times (Shadow has used all three of them, amusingly enough).

Shadow and Rouge started off as aloof when they first met in Sonic Adventure 2, but during the course of the series, they both grow to care for another and have become close friends.

Omega to Shadow and Rouge in Sonic Heroes. Omega greeted Shadow by shooting at him and didn't really care about Rouge being caught in the crossfire, but over the course of the game and further into the series he went from threatening to destroy them if they deviated from the hunt for Eggman to considering them his Only Friends.

Eggman (Choleric): He's the former leader of Team Dark in Sonic Adventure 2. Despite possessing a high IQ, he's terrible at scheming, and is pretty immature. He's intolerant and very temperamental when things don't work out for him. On the flip side, he can be very clever and able to create almost anything in order to achieve his goals. He's extremely cunning and with a sufficient amount of planning, could be very successful at conquering the world... or at least, he could've been successful if it weren't for a certain blue hedgehog.

Rouge (Sanguine): She plays the role of the charismatic leader of Team Dark in Sonic Heroes. She is flirty, mischievous, and sometimes can be very narcissistic. She relies on her skills and wits to get her way, although she can get very infuriated when things don't go the way she expects them to.

Shadow (Phlegmatic:): He's cold, ruthless, and sarcastic, tough-minded and arrogant. He does have a soft side to him, though (which he rarely shows), and can be a very loyal and reliable individual when he needs to be.

Omega (Choleric): He is the last E-series robot that Dr. Eggman created, is very aggressive, and while he's focused on a particular goal, he lacks tact and relies on sheer brute force to get his way. He's snarky, very prideful of his abilities, and views himself as superior to all of Dr. Eggman's creations. His own arrogance rivals that of Shadow's, to the point where they can easily get into fights with each other sometimes, but nonetheless remain loyal allies. He harbors a grudge against Dr. Eggman for disabling him and vows to destroy him.

In-Between: Shadow. Cynical, aggressive, hard-headed, and rough. Underneath it all, however, he does have a caring side to him and remains on the side of justice.

Playing with Fire: Omega. He could shoot Shadow and Rouge out of his hands, covering them with an aura of fire, and had an AOE where he shot fire out of his arms like flamethrowers. Shadow previously had this element in Sonic Adventure 2, where he could perform a flaming somersault.

The Psycho Rangers: Whenever they're in the same game as Team Sonic, they always have comparable stats to them.

Satellite Character: Since Shadow is the one with the most screen-time and plot connections, Rouge & Omega are often reduced to this role.

Shock and Awe: Rouge. She could launch an electrified Shadow and Omega at enemies. Shadow's Chaos Spears sometimes have an electrical effect. In Sonic Adventure 2, Rouge was associated with Casting a Shadow by way of her attack Black Wave.

The Smurfette Principle: Well, Omega's a robot, but he's identified as a male, making Rouge the only female member.

Snark-to-Snark Combat: Anytime whenever Rouge fights with Knuckles and Shadow fights Sonic. Omega during his two battles with Mephiles.

Terrible Trio: Rouge is the leader (albeit only in Sonic Heroes), Shadow and Omega (and at one point Metal Sonic) are the henchmen.

Took a Level in Jerkass: While Shadow and Rouge aren't the most pleasant people to talk to, Sonic Free Riders takes their antagonistic tendencies Up to Eleven. Shadow's ego and Rouge's greed are inflated to the point of Flanderization and they treat everyone around them like dirt. And that's not even going into the horribly apathetic way they treat E-10000B, working the poor robot to the point where his circuits are overheating from exhaustion (a stark contrast to their treatment of Omega). The other teams are outright disgusted at their behavior and Cream in particular begs them to get E-10000B fixed, which falls on deaf ears.

True Companions: They're a surprisingly tight group. They provide both combat and moral support for each other.

Wild Card: While they always end up doing the right thing, their allegiances are shaky at best; Shadow fights whoever gets in the way of his goals, Rouge is only interested in jewels, and Omega attacks whatever the former two point him at.

Undying Loyalty: For a group of distrustful Wild Cards, all three have this for each other. Even Rouge, which is proven by her words to Shadow.

Even if you believe everyone will go against you, know that I'll always remain by your side.

A treasure-hunting bat in search of gemstones. She also works as a freelance government agent — paid in jewels, of course. After Eggman had released Shadow, GUN had assigned her to infiltrate their inner circle and gather as much info on "Project Shadow" as possible. Sometime later, she came across the Master Emerald and tried to add it to her collection, but an intervention by Eggman and Knuckles thwarted her attempt. Afterward, she continued with her mission while trying to gather any Master Emerald shards before Knuckles could. After her mission was completed, she tried to make off with every set of emerald shards, but after a threat from Shadow and a final confrontation with Knuckles, she cut her losses and tried to escape before Professor Gerald's plan forced her to work with the rest of the cast to save the planet. Soon after, she gets wind of Eggman having a secret treasure and opts to loot it for herself, but only discovered an amnesic Shadow and the walking armory Omega, Rouge assumes leadership over the operation and an unlikely alliance is formed in order to get answers. Afterward, Rouge makes occasional appearances apart of Team Dark.

Rouge is vain, shady, manipulative and cunning. She loves getting her way and absolutely despises people who deny her that. Despite her questionable personality and motives, she does have a conscience. While it started off as professional, she does grow to genuinely care about her comrades' well-being, and shows gratitude towards gestures of kindness. She's also willing to put aside her selfish ways when there's a big enough threat.

Almost Kiss: Shares one with Knuckles after he saves her from falling into a lava pit in Sonic Adventure 2. Also shares one with Shadow in Sonic Battle after letting him spend the night in her house so he could recover from a fight.

Affably Evil: She might seem like an evil, bat thief working for Eggman and Shadow, but she actually works for GUN, which means that she was on the good side, so she's obviously not evil. She also acts polite towards her friends.

Badass Normal: Shadow was developed to be the ultimate life form, and Omega is and was meant to be a walking arsenal of weapons. Aside from her flight, which is natural for a bat, and her abilities in the multiplayer mode and some spin-offs, Rouge doesn't have any powers besides her gadgets and combat prowess.

Dark Is Not Evil: Despite using attacks of darkness like "Black Wave", she's definitely not evil.

Dating Catwoman: Her relationship with Knuckles and Shadow (due to the latter's "dark knight" personality - pun not intended) can be described as this. Although subverted on Knuckles' part, since he's not cool with her trying to steal his Master Emerald.

Deadpan Snarker: She never holds back her sass, that is for sure. She's fond of riling up Knuckles with it.

Defrosting Ice Queen: She became a much more caring person after striking up a friendship with Shadow, she's even shown to be concerned about his well being on occasion. By the time of Sonic Generations, she's the only member of her team to be on such good terms with Sonic and his friends that she was invited to his birthday party.

Dude Magnet: While not shown too much, she is shown to be so sexy in a mini-game of Sonic Generations that even Eggman's robots fall for her.

Heel–Face Revolving Door: She was a heel first, turned face by the end of Adventure 2 by helping save the world, turned heel again in Heroes by forming Team Dark, then turned face again by Shadow the Hedgehog. These days, she's mostly settled into her role as a face government agent, even if she is a little less straight-laced than a few other heroes.

Hidden Heart of Gold: She may be a thief and obsessed with jewelry, but she's far from being one of the bad guys. When push comes to shove, she will help others and do the right thing.

Limited Wardrobe: Averted. Unlike most characters which basically keep the same outfit game after game, she regularly had different costumes. Her outfit from Sonic Adventure 2 is her most common one, but she also had different outfits in Sonic Heroes.

Moveset Clone: Of Knuckles in her first appearance, then of Tails in Heroes.

Ms. Fanservice: She has the largest breasts out of the Sonic girls due to her age, and somehow got away with Jiggle Physics in a Sonic game (especially in Sonic Adventure 2, though other games tend to do this as well). Her fanservice is more downplayed these days.

Ms. Vice Girl: Despite being heroic, no matter what side of the line she is on at the time, she wants "all the world's jewels".

Narcissist: Her victory quotes in Sonic Adventure 2 has her bragging about her accomplishments.

(getting a "B" rank) It's all too easy for me! (getting an "A" rank) How was that? Perfect, like me?

Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Downplayed but the nice one of the three. Though she isn't the friendliest person in the world, she's the closest to nice in the group and by far the most social.

Non-Indicative Name: Despite being named after the French word for "red" she doesn't have any red on her (unless you count pink as a kind of red).

Promoted to Playable: After three games of being a non-playable rival character in the Olympics series, Rouge finally becomes playable in Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, but only in the Volleyball Event.

Shadow Archetype: To Knuckles. While he cares about his emerald because of his job as its guardian, she believes that it's her job to collect all the jewels in the world for her own personal gain. Also, though they both have a tendency to stay calm in tough situations, Knuckles is far more hot-headed, which is one of the reasons why she likes teasing him as well.

Smug Snake: When she thinks she's right, she'll love rubbing it in her target's face. When she confronted Shadow in Adventure 2 with information that he wasn't the "original" Shadow, she lowered her eyes and put on a knowing smirk. Too bad for her that Shadow didn't really care.

Vitriolic Best Buds: With Shadow post Heroes, even declaring to stand by his side no matter what in Sonic '06. Although she and Shadow tend to snark at each other on occasions.

Vocal Dissonance: Kathleen Delaney's Rouge voice makes her sound like she's in her thirties, even though Rouge is only 18 years old.

When She Smiles: Look carefully in Sonic Adventure 2 after her fight with Knuckles. After he leaves, she makes not one but two genuinely beautiful smiles that are completely different from her normal devious and seductive expressions.

The last robot in Eggman's E-series line, fittingly named "Omega". After Eggman had moved onto to building bigger and better robots, he locked Omega away in one of his bases, with the implied purpose being to contain Shadow. After Rouge unwittingly awakened him, he decides to take revenge upon his creator to prove his worth, joining Rouge and Shadow on their quest. Sometime later, he would join his two friends as apart of GUN.

Fittingly, Omega has a very robotic personality, only single mindlessly focused on his revenge mission and nothing else. He does grow to consider Shadow and Rouge close friends though, and will always prioritize their word above anything else. Since he was designed as a battle robot, his first directive is to shoot first and ask questions later.

Anti-Hero: In Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), seeing how he also expresses regret when it was revealed that he was the one who sealed Shadow away, and it was implied to be against his will.

Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He considers himself to be the best of Eggman's creations; every other robot created before or after he was? Complete rubbish in his (robotic) eyes. To be fair, he's legitimately powerful and probably is one of Eggman's best. He even defeated Shadow and sealed him away in the Bad Future in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) if there was any doubt about his power.

Everything's Better with Spinning: his entire body rotates while his legs stay still. In Heroes, the third hit of his combo involves spinning around to shoot at pretty much everything in sight. He also does this for Team Dark's Team Blast.

Hidden Depths: Despite all of his Killer Robot tropes, Omega is capable of empathy. When Rouge shows concern in Sonic Heroes that Shadow might not be the real Shadow, Omega states, in a roundabout way, that the real Shadow must exist which gives Rouge hope.

Hyperspace Arsenal: There is no other explanation for all his weapons. In Heroes he even launches multiple missiles that seem larger than his entire arm, and that's after his hands retract and seemingly vanish into thin air.

Jerkass: He can be somewhat violent, Trigger Happy, and never addresses any character by name other than Shadow and Rouge.

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Much like Shadow and Rouge, he's always on the side of good and deeply cares for his teammates, even if he doesn't really show it.

Leeroy Jenkins: In Issue Three of the Sonic Forces prequel comic, Looming Shadow, Team Dark was supposed to use stealth to infiltrate Eggman's base, but Omega decides to abandon that strategy and goes in head first and guns-blazing, much to Rouge's annoyance. This ends up biting him hard in his metallic ass when he encounters Infinite, who wastes no time dealing out a Curb-Stomp Battle.

Machine Monotone: How he talks in every game, though some voice actors add a bit of "monster truck announcer" inflection on top of it.

Meaningful Name: Omega is the last letter in the Greek alphabet. He is the last in the line of the E-100 series of robots.

Mighty Glacier: He's very powerful, but a lot slower than most other Sonic characters. That being said, he can at least keep up with his faster teammates. He was designed to keep Shadow contained after all.

More Dakka: He's a walking arsenal who's packing more heat than the US Military can dream of.

Motive Decay: He seems to have gotten over his grudge against Eggman for abandoning him, although there is a sense that he still loathes him.

Nominal Hero: He only ever does anything heroic either because it involves his goal of getting revenge on Eggman for abandoning him for other robots, or because Shadow and Rouge asked him to help them out.

Revenge: He wants revenge on Eggman for abandoning him for other robots, but is willing to hold off on it if there is a significant threat that must be dispose of such as Metal Sonic or Solaris. Even when he has a clear shotat Eggman who is in the vicinity.

Robo Speak: "Affirmative." Sonic Heroes played this mildly, with a cold monotone befitting an unfeeling robot but fairly smooth speech, 06 plays this painfully straight, with noticeable pauses between every syllable. Forces seems to have gone back to his Heroes speech pattern.

Robot Buddy: To Shadow and Rouge. Those two are the only people that Omega would consider to be his "friends".

Skewed Priorities: No matter what situation he faces, destroying Eggman and his armies always comes first. Especially shown in Shadow the Hedgehog where despite the fact there was an alien invasion happening, his only priority was Eggman. Which is jarring considering there are other times he changes targets such as in Sonic Heroes where his priority is Metal Sonic and in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) where his priority is to gather the Chaos Emeralds to defeat Solaris. Even when he has a clear shotat Eggman who is in the vicinity.

Strength Equals Worthiness: One of his many motivations for fighting Eggman and his robot armies, and the main motivation for his destructiveness in general.

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